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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
The Modern Priscilla, Magazine Cover, 1916
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pencil and Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right The Modern Priscilla Magazine Cover, June 1916.
Category

1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil, Pencil

Framed Polish Rabbi, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi Year: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 16 x 12 inches Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Framed Clarinet Player, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi 8F Year: 1955 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 12 x 15 inches Frame Size: 20.5 x 24 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Grand Mother and Grand Son Read Emotional Letter
Located in Miami, FL
Crockwell is as good as Rockwell. Many would agree with that statement including the editors of the Saturday Evening Post in which both artists were frequent contributors. In fact, ...
Category

1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

"Harlequin and his dog", 20th Century oil on cardbard by Ismael de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA Spanish, 1898 - 1968 HARLEQUIN AND HIS DOG Signed and dated I. de la Serna, 1955 Oil on cardboard 42 X 27-1/2 i...
Category

1950s Symbolist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Oil

Portrait of a Girl, Oil Painting on Canvas by Lajos Rezes Molnar
By Lajos Rezes Molnar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lajos Rezes Molnar, Hungarian (1896 - 1989) Title: Portrait of a Girl Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 24 x 20 in...
Category

1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rabbi Reading, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi F Year: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches Frame Size: 17.5 x 15 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Reading Rabbi, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi 12F Year: circa 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches Frame Size: 20 x 15 i...
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category

1950s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Gouache

Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting by Stanley Mitruk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Mitruk, American (1922 - 2006) Title: Portrait of a Young Man Year: 1952 Medium: Oil Painting, signed and dated verso Size: 40 x 23 inches
Category

1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Category

1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Mid-Century Portrait of a Young Girl with Red Hair
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming portrait of a young girl with red hair wearing a typical mid-century frilly dress and high-cut bangs, by an unknown artist (American,...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Eminent Women, Illustration for McCall's Magazine, May 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959. Accompanied by a tear sheet of the p...
Category

1950s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

'Young Bretonne', Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant, early 20th century oil study of a young Breton girl shown regarding the viewer with a stern and penetrating gaze. Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sombre Gentlemen, Mid 20th C. Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sombre Gentlemen, Male Portrait, Original Impressionist Oil Painting British School, Mid 20th Century Oil painting on board, unframed Board size: 18 x 24 inches Incredibly stylish p...
Category

1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Portrait of a Girl in Bonnet
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a girl in bonnet by listed artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997), circa 1950. Unframed. Signed "Gleiforst" lower left corner. Image size: 20"H...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Boy, Titled "Boy", Original Impressionist Oil Painting By the British artist, JM Green, Mid 20th Century Signed and titled 'Boy' verso Oil painting on board, unfr...
Category

1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

At the Cafe
Located in Houston, TX
Francois Gall 1912-1987 French artist. BENEZIT LISTED. GALL WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE MEDAILLE d'ORE At the Paris Salon of 1947. 10 ½ x 18 oil on canvas, signed lower right. This ca...
Category

1950s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woman Baking, Redbook Illustration, Mid - Century
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right, unframed - Interior Illustration for Redbook Magazine
Category

1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Rabbi and Student, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Rabbi and Student Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 16 x 11 inches Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Composition 1955 - Oil on Canvas by Felice Casorati - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and large-sized work by Casorati, hand signed and published in one of the most important monographs about the Artist. Felice Casorati was an important Italian painter, scu...
Category

1950s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Love at War, Lovers in a troubled moment . Handsome men and beautiful women.
Located in Miami, FL
Jon Whitcomb was know for is dipictions of Handsome men and glamous women. Most likely for a major newsstand magazine like. Cosmopolitan, McCall's and Pl...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache

Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category

1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

'Janet Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Di Gesu", for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988); further signed and titled verso, and bearing original exhibition label. A substantial figural oil showing Victor di Gesu's wife, the artist Janet Ament, with a white shawl over her knees and seated cross-legged in front of a large ficus. A major work by this notable California Fauve...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study of John Singleton Copley's painting of John Hancock
By John B. Monaco
Located in Soquel, CA
John B. Monaco 1916 painting and study of the John Singleton Copley portrait of John Hancock. San Francisco artist and San Francisco city documen...
Category

1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Die Sängerin, " Dorothea Stefula, illustration, acrylic, figurative, ca 1950-60
By Dorothea Stefula
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Dorothea Stefula was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1914 and studied at the art academy in Hamburg. Stefula illustrated numerous children's books, designed postage stamps, painted fresc...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category

1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Violinist, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Violinist Year: 1958 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 12 x 15 inches Frame Size: 20 x 22.5 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors. Provenance: Christie's Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category

1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Flower Girl in a Paris Cabaret
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DIEY Yves (1892-1984) Flower Girl at the Paris Opera circa 1950 Oil on canvas signed low right Montparnasse Frame by Gault (Paris) Dimensions canvas : 65 X 5...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vertumnus, Oil Painting by William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo Title: Vertumnus Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 42 in. x 36 in. (106...
Category

1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors. Provenance: Christie's Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category

1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Mexican Interior Scene Scene with Figures and Fish" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
Category

1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Portrait of a Young Man, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman Title: Portrait of a Man Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 11.5 x 8.5 inches Frame: 14 x 11 inches
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

'The White Bonnet', Paris, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Art Museum
By Henrik Schouboe
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'H.S.' for Henrik Schouboe (Danish, 1876-1949) and painted circa 1915. Henrik Schouboe first studied at the Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1894-1901 and, from 1903-1910, in Italy and Paris. He was awarded numerous stipends and scholarships including the Larssen (1902-3) and the Akademie Scholarship in 1908. In 1906, he had exhibited for the first time at the Charlottenborg where his submitted entry was purchased by the leading Danish painter of the time, Kristian Zahrtmann, for his personal collection. Schouboe continued to exhibit both domestically and internationally for over thirty years and was the recipient of a variety of prizes, medals and juried awards including the purchase of his 1908 Charlottenborg entry, 'Young Couple in a Landscape', by the State Museum of Art for inclusion in the Danish national collection. Schouboe's work is held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including Copenhagen, Aabenraa, Maribo and the Aalborg Art Museums. We are pleased to offer a delicate and psychologically penetrating portrait of this beautiful and determined girl on the cusp of womanhood. Reference: Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 30, p. 269; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 12, p. 520; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Dansk Kunst (Charlottenborg), 1927: Taf. 27, 1928: Taf. 38, 1929: Taf. 46; S. Michaëlis i: Art VII, 1905-06; Vilh. Wanscher i: Kunstbl. 1909-10, 71f; Harald Giersing...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches Signed lower left
Category

1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media

The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event. Signed lower left From the Estate of Charles Martignette. Most likey for the Sa...
Category

1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Flamenco
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an magnificent original oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002) Flamenco, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1955, with an image dimension of 12 x 9 ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Outdoor Figure Study, Oil Painting by William J. Schultz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William J. Schultz, American (1919 - 2005) Title: Outdoor Figure Study Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 40 x 25 inches (101.5 x 6...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rabbi and Torah, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Rabbi and Torah Year: circa 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 16 x 12 inches Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right. Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.' Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category

1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Portrait of a Woman, Woman's Magazine Illustration Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait of a Woman Mixed media on board , Redbook magazine interior illustration done in the 1950's , Work is unframed
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Portrait of Sonia, Oil Painting by Jan De Ruth c1950
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991) Title: Portrait of Sonia Berg Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 24 in. x 20 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 33 x...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

untitled ( Civil Rights )
Located in Miami, FL
Evergood is decades ahead of his time in shouting out against racial injustice. Painted in the late 1950's KKK is an important work. For Philip Evergood (born Philip Blashki), pain...
Category

1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woman with Leaves
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Illustration
Category

1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Red Women - like Gertrude Abercrombie - Surrealist Women Artists
Located in Miami, FL
Somewhat like Gertrude Abercrombie but the work is better painted, conceived, and designed - Magazine Illustration. Most likely for: Good Housek...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category

1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Casein

Seated Girl on Chair
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Canvas Board Dimensions: 27.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Image
Category

1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Swamp Girl, Paperback Cover
By Barry Stephens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Unsigned This illustration was published as the cover of Swamp Girl (Intimate Novel No. 11) by Perry Lindsay, Phoenix Press, 1950.
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1950s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Gouache

Kuppenheimer Man
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Used for signage and marketing purposes. Thanhardt-Burger carved gilt frame. Painting is fully conserved. Client / Usage: K...
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1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Study of a Young Woman', Karlsruhe, Berlin, Danish Post-Impressionist, Benezit
By Alfred Hermann Helberger
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right 'A.H.'; signed verso, "Alfred Helberger", inscribed "Gertrúd" and dated 1914. Bearing the original 1962 exhibition label from the Senator fur Folksbildung, Ber...
Category

1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Portrait of Woman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image of a woman wearing a robe and talking on the telephone. Signed lower left. Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early rep...
Category

1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Paper, Ink

French Woman Portrait in Oil Pastel
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century French oil pastel of blonde in pleasing tones of blues and yellows, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic ...
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1950s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine illustration, April 1918
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1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Fallen Man ,
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post, Story Illustration Depicts Connecticut train station with possible drunk commuter being assisted by good samaritan Signed lower left Provenance: Illustration ...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Below Deck
Located in Miami, FL
Charles Martignette Heritage Auctions, This is a Wonderfully rendered work with high level of detail and color saturation. Norman Rockwellesqu...
Category

1950s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Portrait of a Man
By Emmanuel Mane-Katz
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Emmanuel Mane-Katz circa 1950. An expressionist style portrait of a man with a forlorn expression in dark gray and red tones. A...
Category

1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Champagne for the Honeymoon
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color. The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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